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[Regenbogen]

Ah, here Mother's day is in October, but i wish you a wonderful Mother's Day!! Hubby adds his good wishes too! 

Aw, that's sweet. Thank you both. 
Saturday I bought a new thermos for my coffee and I tried to understand the instructions in Spanish. I didn't know the words for hot and cold yet. But there was only one sentence I couldn't make sense off without reading the translation.

I just woke up. It's 3 a.m. but I will sleep 2 hours more now before work. Micro already placed her presents for me on my place at the table: a paper heart and a paper butterfly she made with a piece of chocolate as its body. Cute.

[Regenbogen]

Sorry for the double post.

I couldn't sleep any more after 3 a.m. So I'm very tired now. My mother couldn't sleep either, so we were both tired today. 
Mini gave me a the picture of a duck she painted herself. Very cool, looks almost real. She's an artist.

[Dina]

I am sorry about the lack of sleep and having to work on Mother's Day, but what you told us about the presents is so sweet!
I hope you and your mom enjoy yourselves even when we know you are grieving.
It seems like you really have an artist in the family, I admire that. I am almost a disaster at art. I managed to do a few things not horrible at school in drawings and paintings. Anything 3d or musical is a complete, unrestrained disaster for me. Luckily I can write more or less well.
I do enjoy arts even when I cannot produce it, and that is why I admire people with talent for that.

I thought the word for "hot" was popular, as I've seen many sitcoms or things like that using the word "caliente" for Latinas.

[Regenbogen]

I admit I've heard the word caliente before but not in connection to a woman. After I looked it up, I was like "of course, why didn't I know it " lol. Should have been clear when reading about a thermos there should be words like hot and cold. But now I won't forget it again.
But one doesn't hear a lot of Spanish here.
Mostly it's in music.

About art: in my family as well as in my husband's family there are lots of people either good in drawing or music or mostly both. One of my nieces for example is an extraordinary singer. And my daughter can also sing and would be able to play an instrument, if she wasn't too lazy to exercise, lol. But her talent for drawing is extraordinary. She exceeds all of us by far. She also reads a lot and writes her own stories, mostly fan fiction about a character from Percy Jackson and about some anime she likes to watch.
 On the other hand she is bad at maths. Except geometrical forms as long as she doesn't have to calculate with them.
And she is somewhat confused or clumsy in daily life. Tends to loose concentration and starts to dream. It is cute as long as you don't need something from her.


As for the grieving. Of course we are, but he would have wanted for us to go on, so we do. It's harder for my mother, because she has to live alone now. There are very nice neighbours and friends helping her with all kinds of things. She goes out once in a while or goes on day trips. So she is quite occupied at the moment.
Winter will be difficult, because there is not much to do outside and more time to think. But I'll see that she won't be alone then. Especially Christmas.

[Dina]

Hi Regen!
Music? That is interesting. What music in Spanish do you hear?

That is awesome about your artistic family. My family was never too artistic but my mom had a cousin who is a good singer and pianist. And her children are very artistic. Her son plays the guitar and the piano and is a good (but not extraordinary) singer. And her daughter can sing but she is amazing drawing. And she has a phase where she painted walls, like graffiti, she was great at that. I hope she is back at that sooner or later.

I am good but not extraordinary at maths though.

Of course he would have wanted for you to go on and I am so glad you are doing it. And yes, your mom will be needing help in Winter.

I need to leave now, I have a class. See you later!

[Dina]

Today it was very rainy, so I arrived home cold and wet. While I took a shower, hubby called delivery and we had a delicious lent's stew. Comfort food rules 

[Regenbogen]

Hi, sorry it took me so long. I worked some nights and got sick afterwards. There is some sort of cold almost everyone has and now I have it too. The sort with coughing and the nose is closed. We took turns. First Mini, then my husband, then myself and now Micro.

LOL Micro is reading a funny text for school. OK, the text isn't funny but she is laughing anyway. It's about Michelle Obama. She has problems reading the English names and cities. That's why she is laughing.
Chichachoo! LMAO Chicago.


@Dina.
About the Spanish music. It's mostly party songs for summer with Spanish texts. They are occasionally played in the radio.

Micro is still in a good mood because of the funny text, even though she is doing maths now. If I had known, I would have let her read names of US cities before every dull homework, LOL.

[Dina]

Hi Regen! Sorry about the sickness, are you well now? We are also having a lot of cold because we are alternating mostly warm days with cool ones (still not real cold, except like in the middle of the night). The rain I told you about last Friday did not harm me, but many colleagues caught the cold. The weekend was without rain, Monday there were some falling drops, but very lightly. And then last night and today are very rainy.

Luckily I have a long weekend. Tomorrow is a holiday and Friday is what we called a "bridge holiday". This is our system: Some holidays have to be celebrated/remembered (most are sad things, like the anniversary of the death of some important person) always in the same day while other can be moved in the week to make a long weekend. That is, if the celebrating day happens to be a Thursday it is moved to the Friday or next Monday. The idea is that long weekends help tourism and are good economy. it has actually worked quite well.
Well, when some Holidays that cannot be moved happen in a Tuesday or Thursday there is the "bridge" when the previous Monday or following Friday are declared a holiday too. All for creating a long weekend. There are some small letter arrangements I am not too familiar, for example, I believe the actual holiday is a day where you have to pay double to your employess if you want them to work (like a Sunday) while the actual holiday you pay 1.5 X, like a Saturday. Or something like that. More stores are closed on the actual holiday than on the bridge day.
Well, May 25 is one of those Holidays that cannot be moved, so Friday is a bridge holiday. It is good for me because my classes are Tuesday and Thursday, so this week was not only short but light (my class yesterday was a good one, and we even finished half an hour early).
May 25 is one of our most important civic days. You are supposed to wear the cockade (I hope that is the world) from 18 to 25. Most people does not, but TV hosts, ministers and other high ranking workers, teacher and school children are encouraged to wear it. I had mine yesterday.
That is because on May 18, 1810 people in Buenos Aires began opposing the authority of the viceroy (the ruler the king of Spain appointed in America) and on May 25 the viceroy was demoted and a first government was elected among our citizens (it was an ensemble of 9 people). The actual independence of the country did not happen until 1816, but May 25 was the beginning of all.

Sorry for the history lesson, i thought some of you may be curious. Also, May 25 1810 is said to have been a rainy day so every time it rains on May 25 we feel it is fair. Rain is expected for tomorrow too. Traditionally, on May 25 we eat some traditional food, for example, locro (a corn-based dish I never made myself. I am actually not a fan), "pastelitos" (a pastry for tea time or breakfast, normally with a confiture of sweet potato or quince) and, of course, empanadas. I often do them but I think this year I will be calling delivery, because I did not do the grocery shopping 

[Regenbogen]

((((Dina))))
I wish you a nice national holiday!

We have Pentecost Sunday and Monday. And there are two weeks of school holidays. The public bath opens this Saturday.

We planned to make a trip to England but abandoned the idea because of several reasons. Me having lots of doctors appointments due to my bad right knee and probably I broke my left foot a few years ago and didn't notice. Oops. Only now I realized that my little toe feels numb and there is a point at the side of my foot which hurts when I put a finger on it.
The doctor wasn't sure so I have to go to a specialist who does MRT for the foot and the knee.
She gave me some happy pills against the pain. Though I haven't tried them yet.

On the upside we are all on vacation. We plan to visit some castles in the vicinity or swim in some lakes, maybe even stay somewhere for one night.
If the weather is not good for outdoor activities we could go to the cinema. Arielle is starting in June. We grown-ups could go see Guardians of the Galaxy 3 or Renfield. Nicolas Cage as Dracula! The man of the thousand faces, lol.

I do still have the cold, but no more fever.


We have bridge days too. When a holiday is on a Thursday those who are fast enough can take the Friday off to have a long weekend.


And I succeeded in infecting a colleague with the Dresden Files, mwahaha!

[Dina]

Thanks for the wishes. I wish you some super happy vacations!
But what the...fudge? How could you break a foot without knowing it? Well, whatever the case, I hope the doctors and pills help you. But try not to get too in love of them pills.

The plan of visiting castles sounds wonderful, especially considering there is no castle near here (where there are a couple of castle like things, but they are from XIX century or the first decades of XX.

I have two questions. What is a public bath, like a community swimming pool? and what is Arielle?

I laughed at the trailer of Renfield. Did I tell you I watched "the unbearable weight...". It is with Nicholas Cage playing himself, and Pedro Pascal playing a character who is not Pedro Pascal. I liked it a lot. Good fun.

[Regenbogen]

Thank you. The public bath is a community swimming pool with several pools (a long one only for swimming, a deep one for jumping, a big one for just having fun and not so deep for those who can't swim yet, mostly children, and a small one for babies and toddlers) and wide arias of grass under the shade of trees to spend the day or however long you want to stay there.

Apparently one can break one's anything with a very narrow break, a hair's breadth. And I didn't notice because the foot hurt anyway so that small hurt was overruled by the bigger ones. My husband would say, because I am not able to feel pain, lol. But this is not true. Just a joke between us. What is true is that my pain tolerance seems to be pretty high. As it is with most people with chronic pain.
The joke started during Mini's birth: the peak on the apparatus showed high labour, but I only felt a little tickle and this only when he told me that there was a high peak at the moment.

Arielle is the little mermaid. It's the movie with real persons.

I wasn't able to watch the Renfield trailer yet. But I will correct that now.

[Dina]

Ok, yes, we have some of those community pools, not so much as we had before. Capitalism, now you have some private places, but only a couple public ones. I have not been in a while so I do not know if they are well cared of, but when I was a teenager I went to one that was aside of a big park. It was nice, but not like the others. This was just a complex of two or three pools (an Olympic one, a smaller one and I believe there was a very low one for little children) with the changing rooms and things like that and then, outside, you have a park. But they were not really connected. Most of the other places I remember you have the pool and the green areas more or less integrated. 

Yes, I've heard that high tolerance to pain is an adaptation of chronic pain, and I am really sorry you have the latter. I think I am quite average but sometimes something very minor, like a small cut, hurts me a lot. Anyways, what you mentioned about Mini's birth impressed me. Respect.

Oh! I should have guessed. We spell the Little Mermaid Ariel (which is fun, because that is a male name here). I saw it was coming to cinemas and it looks good, but I will wait until it arrives to Disney+

I just heard that Tina Turner left this world 

[Regenbogen]

Oh no. Tina Turner. I have not heard that before.

[Dina]

I think it was announced not long ago, hubby told me. I admit I was never what we can call a fan. I just liked to hear her songs on occasion. And I liked her. And of course, I respect her career. It is a sad day for music.

[Regenbogen]

It was just today. I looked it up. She died in Switzerland after a long lasting disease they said.

I am tired now. Going to sleep soon. We just watched the last episode of Sweet Tooth. I hope there will be more some day. It looked like it should continue. A new mission and a new opponent were introduced. We'll see. It was nice, interesting ideas.